Our detractors attack anything about us except our ideas
With first the Telegraph and now the Times launching substance-free wink-nudge coverage of the Media Reform Coalition, we can say with confidence: we’ve finally made it. We’re famous! Hot on the heels...
View ArticleLucy Meadows coroner rules press played a part in her suicide
It is rare that members of the press are directly confronted with the results of their reporting decisions. But at an inquest on Tuesday the coroner investigating what can now be unambiguously termed...
View ArticleReal Journalism After Leveson: how do we achieve it?
This is a talk given by Angela Phillips at an event called ‘After Leveson: is citizen journalism the answer?’ The event was held by Citizen Journalism Educational Trust on Saturday 8 June. Angela is...
View ArticleOur Media, Not Theirs: report from the Media Reform rally, 17 June
This post is reproduced, with kind permission, from the website of the National Union of Journalists. It does not represent our views, but does offer a fair summary of the rally that night. As the...
View ArticleMiranda detention part two: who decides on the public interest?
Yesterday we wrote about why the detention of David Miranda under anti-terror legislation was so different from the arrest of British journalists on suspicion of unlawfully obtaining information. We...
View ArticleThe Daily Mail knows all about ‘hate’
Des Freedman argues for a full and open debate about concentrated media power. In light of the forthcoming consideration by the government of the two rival Royal Charters, this is the first of a series...
View ArticlePROTEST: THE DAILY MAIL HATES BRITAIN
When: Sunday, 6 October, 12:00 Where: The Daily Mail, Young Street, W8 5EH (High St Kensington tube) Hosted by: The People’s Assembly Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/247553875396192/ From the...
View ArticleProfessor James Curran comments on the Daily Mail
Letter to the Evening Standard The Daily Mail’s attack on Ed Miliband’s father as ‘the man who hated Britain’ because he criticised the country’s institutions and values is a replay of the McCarthyite...
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Press Complaints Commission: Daily Mail breached The Editors’ Code
by Jon Danzig The Press Complaints Commission has ruled that the Daily Mail breached The Editors’ Code on accuracy with its story about buses and planes from Romania and Bulgaria to the UK being...
View ArticleThe Mail and intrusion into grief – an isolated incident?
Written by Martin Moore. Reposted with kind permission from the Media Standards Trust. When a Mail on Sunday journalist intruded on a private memorial service for Ed Miliband’s uncle the editor of the...
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